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For I think it
is set down in the law on what day these proscriptions and sales shall take place,
forsooth on the first of January. Some months afterwards the man was slain, and his
property is said to have been sold. Now, either this property has never been returned in
the public accounts, and we are cheated by this scoundrel more cleverly than we think,
or, if they were returned, then the public accounts have some way or other been tampered
with, for it is quite evident that the property could not have been sold according to
law. I am aware, O judges, that I am investigating this point prematurely, and that I am
erring as greatly as if, while I ought to be curing a mortal sickness of Sextus Roscius,
I were mending a whitlow; for he is not anxious about his money; he has no regard to any
pecuniary advantage; he thinks he can easily endure his poverty, if he is released from
this unworthy suspicion, from this false accusation.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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